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Your Parse backend was always a bad idea.

Posted on February 2, 2016June 25, 2020 by Jameson Quave

So if you haven’t heard, Facebook is shutting down Parse, the backend as a service (BaaS) that was acquired by Facebook a little while ago. Lots of developers are feeling a little lost, and even betrayed by Facebook. I tweeted this screen cap someone made from the Parse homepage before the shutdown, and it pretty…

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Adding IBInspectable to a superclass in Swift

Posted on December 30, 2015December 28, 2015 by Jameson Quave

Adding IBInspectable to a UICollectionViewCell subclass One very useful feature I find is to add a IBInspectable background image to my views. In an entertainment app I’m currently building there is a designable cell that looks like this: @IBDesignableclass TrailerCollectionViewCell: MediaCollectionViewCell {    @IBOutlet weak var lengthLabel: UILabel!    @IBInspectable weak var bgImage: UIImage! {        didSet {            imgView.frame = self.bounds            self.addSubview(imgView)            imgView.image =…

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Being Swifty with Collection View and Table View Cells

Posted on December 28, 2015February 3, 2016 by Jameson Quave

Here’s a common scenario: You have a table view or collection view that has a variety of different types of content. You want to display varying cells based on these types of content, and they’re all mixed within a single section. Pardon the stand-in art, but it looks roughly like this: In the Objective-C world,…

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Developing tvOS Apps for Apple TV [Part 2]

Posted on September 10, 2015September 24, 2015 by Jameson Quave

Looking for some help building your Apple TV tvOS App? I’m available for consulting and development, contact me. This is part 2 of the tvOS tutorial. If you haven’t gone through part 1 yet, I suggest you run through that first. Adding Interactivity In the first section we created a simple TVML document with a…

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Developing tvOS Apps for Apple TV [Part 1]

Posted on September 9, 2015September 28, 2015 by Jameson Quave

Here’s what you’ll have at the end of part 2 of this tutorial if you follow along: Looking for some help building your Apple TV tvOS App? I’m available for consulting and development, contact me. Apple TV Developer Tools Before we get started you’ll need the Xcode 7.1 beta, which you can download here: Download…

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Objective-C Pointers and Swift 2: A Simple Guide

Posted on August 23, 2015September 1, 2015 by Jameson Quave

This post written on August 23, 2015 to be compatible with Xcode 7 Beta and Swift 2 Objective-C Pointers and Swift Reading C pointers from Swift Let’s say I have a C Int object as a Swift pointer. For example this Objective-C method would return an int pointer, or (int *) in C terminology: @interface…

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Swift 2 – What’s new

Posted on June 10, 2015June 11, 2015 by Jameson Quave

Monday Apple announced Swift 2, and just about everything announced is an extremely welcome change. This post is a summary of Chris Lattner’s discussion in the WWDC video “What’s new in Swift”. Now, let’s run through them… Fundamentals enums can now be printed to the console and show the actually value instead of just (enum…

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WWDC 2015 Developer Highlights

Posted on June 8, 2015June 8, 2015 by Jameson Quave

Today Apple announced watchOS, delivering a new native SDK for developers at WWDC 2015, a new version of Mac OS X known as OS X El Capitan. Mac OS X El Capitan Shaking the mouse makes the cursor appear larger to make it easier to find. Safari now includes “pinning” of tabs, which leaves permanent…

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Open Source Swift – A Look At The Top Swift Repositories

Posted on June 5, 2015June 5, 2015 by Jameson Quave

Github, the most popular open source repository for open source software, offers a feature that let’s us view repositories by language. In this post, I want to dissect some of the most popular Swift repositories as of June 5th, 2015. So, let’s kick it off with the most starred Swift repository, Alamofire. Alamofire Alamofire is…

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Swift 1.2 and Xcode 6 Beta 2 – The best update yet

Posted on February 23, 2015February 25, 2015 by Jameson Quave

The big news in the Swift community is the release of Swift 1.2, featuring some awesome features. Apple wrote about that a bit here, this was before they released Xcode 6.3 Beta 2, which came out today. But it contains most of the major language changes. Xcode 6.3 Beta 2 First of all, Xcode itself…

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